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Bonnie Thurston
Bonnie Thurston has written or edited 24 theological books and eight books of poetry.
Facing Failure
My crumbling castle is perched on a hill. Hidden from the road by long ago planted climbing roses, ...
Re-imagine
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. Revelation 21:1...
Christmas Story
I didn’t brave the frigid temperature to attend the Christmas Eve liturgy. I went to the 10:30 a.m. Eucharist when it was marginally warmer. ...
Remain Here, Keep Awake
Mark 14:34 ...
Light Shines in Darkness
Everybody knows Christmas
is good for business.
To attract the tourist trade,
our town council cheerfully
promotes an annual
“Festival of Lights,”...
The church’s one foundation
Unable to see verdant forests
for mangled, ecclesial trees,
most of my companions
have abandoned the church,
not rats, but certainly escapees...
By the oaks of Mamre
He had been a stranger,
so took in strangers,
today three, and
in the heat of the day.
He interrupts my spinning
wool for his new cloak,...
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Maundy Thursday,
Plague Year
Plague Year
“and I am perpetually awaiting / a rebirth of wonder”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
A process not to be hurried
Long solitude is a gradual
drawing inward, going deeper,
like autumn bulbs
snuggling into the soil,
marinating in darkness....
Wrong way round
In a theological tome I read
“opening the world to God”
which echoes in my ear
a quarter tone off pitch,
just enough to make choirs
of angels and archangels wince....
Silent night
The old tradition says
at Christ’s borning
there was utter silence.
The whole created world
was still. For an hour.
Even choirs of angels
went quiet....
Eve of Advent
The few remaining leaves
stagger drunkenly, randomly
across the darkening sky.
The wind blows them
where it will, begins to moan
the loss of autumnal color,...
After the storm
A morning of golden light
after two days’ stormy darkness
illuminates the bleak twistedness
of trees now dressed, not in leaves,
but centuries growth of lichens...